Since the early 1960s, Tony Conrad's films and compositions have been the stuff of legend. His development and practice of Just Intonation and Minimalism through his work with Stockhausen and La Monte Young and his pivotal role in the formation of The Velvet Underground has been incredibly influential.

Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present by Tyler Hubby examines the pioneering life and works of this amazing artist, musician, activist and educator.

Opening the show will be Glenn Weyant conducting “TONY BECOMES A BUDDHA”. Weyant’s original score is built upon sound ideas and philosophical ruminations put forth by Tony Conrad for an orchestra of amplified bowed guitars, cellos, violins, violas.

Saturday, October 15th, 2016

Steinfeld Warehouse Community Arts Center

POG Presents: Lisa Robertson and Glenn Weyant - 7:30 - 10:00 p.m.

101 W 6th St Tucson, Az 8516 USA

Price: $10

Lisa Robertson's books of poetry include XEclogue (1993); Debbie: An Epic (1997), nominated for a Governor General’s Award; The Weather (2001), which Robertson wrote during her Judith E. Wilson fellowship at Cambridge University;The Men (2006); and R’s Boat (2010). Her architectural essays are collected in Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (revised ed. 2010), and she has published a work of prose essays, Nilling (2012). Robertson has been the subject of a special issue of Chicago Review and was the Holloway poet-in-residence at the University of California-Berkeley in 2006. In 2005 she was awarded the PIP Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry in English. Robertson has taught at the University of California-San Diego, Capilano College, Dartington College of Art, the California College of Art, and the University of Cambridge. She holds no degrees and has no academic affiliation, and supports herself through free-lance writing on art, architecture, astrology, interior design, and food. She currently lives in France.

Enjoy a truly unique and enchanting evening under the stars and feel transported to the Home of Frida Kahlo in Mexico City.

The New York Botanical Garden’s blockbuster Exhibition, Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life is coming to the old Pueblo! It will open at the Gardens to our special friends and supporters in a preview event and festive Gala on the evening of October 9th. The exhibit opens to the public on the following day and will run for eight months accompanied by cultural celebrations and educational programming throughout.

Borders divide us, whether they be geographical, ideological, cultural or religious. The artists in this panel explore these divisions, crossing and erasing the lines of division as they imagine and try to construct a better society.

Sunday, October 18th, 2015

Four solid hours of steadily (de)evolving drone / harmonics / distortion / feedback created in the Mauerkrankheit Style of cello playing developed by Glenn Weyant during a decade of research into developing new and original techniques for amplifying, bowing, percussing and recording the US / Mexico border wall.

And as if that were not enough, this performance of Dream Wall On An Infinite Horizon will feature the symbiotic psychonaut mind-candy hallucinations of projectionist extraordinaire Adam Cooper-Teran!

Mauerkrankheit style music --- often misunderstood and occasionally maligned by those with sensitive and culturally misanthropic genteel necrosonic sensibilities for not conforming to their pre-programmed regressive presumptions of militaristically enforced institutionalized genre expectations of the theoretical wall delineating the porous membrane which lauds some sound as music and ghettoizes others as non-music --- eschews the worn tropes of harmony, rhythm, pitch and so on in pursuit of stratified harmonic frequency combinations and their role in the glacial development of deeply immersive durational soundscapes.

Dream Wall On An Infinite Horizon is the second release in the Mauerkrankheit series and this event will mark the first official performance.

A handful of limited edition Dream Wall On An Infinite Horizon cd-r's and other works will be available at the event for purchase or barter.

Saturday, August 22nd, 2015

Here Comes The World is an original immersive borderland experience in sound, motion and images of digital light.

Musicians Thollem McDonas, Glenn Weyant and Michael Dauphinais will be joined by the Zuzi Dancers to remix, reinterpret and re-present transformative footage from a Border Wall experience earlier in the day shot within the Arizona, USA/Sonora, Mex. militarized zone.

The audio and video will fill the space as a point of departure for an improvisation illustrating the dynamics surrounding political borders as well as the inevitable collapse of all that is rigid and seemingly unmovable.

The sonic score will be created live with amplified found objects, field recordings, electronics, and instruments of both traditional and original design.

That the world comes to us as much as we go to the world with a sense of humility, humor and adventure, awake to possibilities and with curiosity and unity across borders of all kinds.

What you may experience: Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is an innovative approach to dance and movement training developed by Joan Skinner in the early 1960s. SRT reveals the natural grace in every human being and taps into transforming states of consciousness that awaken the Dance within. SRT lets us practice letting go: letting go of stress, letting go of unnecessary holding in our body, letting go of pre-conceptions about what is supposed to happen, letting go of fear of awkwardness, letting go of the belief that we somehow don't have the “right body.”

Through this practice we find energy and power and rediscovery of our natural alignment, improving strength and flexibility, and awakening creativity and spontaneity. The poetic imagery used in SRT often conveys a sense of effortlessness – of being moved rather than commanding movement – and fosters a safe environment in which the individual can release excess tension and open into spaciousness. Tactile exercises are used to give the imagery immediate physical effect in the movements of participants.

The goal of the workshop is to offer participants a hands-on experience of soundscape recording in a natural environment, while learning about the field recording practices of master artists, and participating in a conversation and skill-share with the artists and other participants around the techniques and philosophy of field recording.

The workshop will take place on March 25-26, the two days prior to the Balance/Unbalance 2015 Conference. It will be led by three working artists, each with a significant and unique practice in field recording. The site of the hands-on session is the Beaver Creek Experimental Watershed at sunrise, 90 minutes north and east of Tempe.

The goal of the workshop is to offer participants a hands-on experience of soundscape recording in a natural environment, while learning about the field recording practices of master artists, and participating in a conversation and skill-share with the artists and other participants around the techniques and philosophy of field recording.

The workshop will take place on March 25-26, the two days prior to the Balance/Unbalance 2015 Conference. It will be led by three working artists, each with a significant and unique practice in field recording. The site of the hands-on session is the Beaver Creek Experimental Watershed at sunrise, 90 minutes north and east of Tempe.

The goal of the workshop is to offer participants a hands-on experience of soundscape recording in a natural environment, while learning about the field recording practices of master artists, and participating in a conversation and skill-share with the artists and other participants around the techniques and philosophy of field recording.

The workshop will take place on March 25-26, the two days prior to the Balance/Unbalance 2015 Conference. It will be led by three working artists, each with a significant and unique practice in field recording. The site of the hands-on session is the Beaver Creek Experimental Watershed at sunrise, 90 minutes north and east of Tempe.

The goal of the workshop is to offer participants a hands-on experience of soundscape recording in a natural environment, while learning about the field recording practices of master artists, and participating in a conversation and skill-share with the artists and other participants around the techniques and philosophy of field recording.

The workshop will take place on March 25-26, the two days prior to the Balance/Unbalance 2015 Conference. It will be led by three working artists, each with a significant and unique practice in field recording. The site of the hands-on session is the Beaver Creek Experimental Watershed at sunrise, 90 minutes north and east of Tempe.

The goal of the workshop is to offer participants a hands-on experience of soundscape recording in a natural environment, while learning about the field recording practices of master artists, and participating in a conversation and skill-share with the artists and other participants around the techniques and philosophy of field recording.

The workshop will take place on March 25-26, the two days prior to the Balance/Unbalance 2015 Conference. It will be led by three working artists, each with a significant and unique practice in field recording. The site of the hands-on session is the Beaver Creek Experimental Watershed at sunrise, 90 minutes north and east of Tempe.

ZUZI! Dance presents the spring edition of its biannual No Frills Dance Happenin'. A variety of choreographers throughout Tucson and Southern Arizona come to share fresh and innovative works from various stages of the creative process. The works range from serious to silly and some are presented here for the first time. This year features choreographers from ZUZI!, Condanza, Evolve Dance West , HipNautique belly dance troupe, Cirque Roots’ Stephanie Cortes, Phoenix-based MAC & Company, and Canyon Del Oro High School, among others. There will be live musical accompaniment by Martha and Greg Stitt for Carol Reinhart’s Flamenco piece and by Glenn Weyant for a dance improvisation. Performances on the ground and in the air are interspersed with the off-the-wall antics of ZUZI!’s lovable MC, Carie Schneider.

No Frills Dance Happenin’ will be presented in two distinct shows—Friday, March 6th will highlight youth choreographers and performers and Saturday, March 7th will showcase adult artists. Both shows begin at 7:30 PM in the ZUZI! Theater at the Historic Y at 738 N. 5th Avenue in Tucson. Tickets will be available at the door for $10 for adults and $5 for youth under 18. For more information, call 520-629-0237.

Saturday, November 22nd, 2014

ZUZI! Theater : The Migration Project

The Migration Project - November 14, 15, 21, 22 --- 7:30 p.m.

The Historic Y, 738 N. 5th Ave Tucson, AZ 85716 USA 520-975-4021

Price: $18 gen/ $15 seniors and students

NOTE: FOR THIS EVENT SONICANTA WILL BE AMPLIFYING THE EARTH!

The Migration Project

"The place I call home expands with every risk I take, every truth I share"

The Migration Project is a theatrical docudrama exploring human migration and our efforts to claim home, opens November 14th in a collaborative workshop production with ZUZI! Dance Company.

November 14, 15, 21 and 22 at 7:30 pm.Tickets are $18, general admission. $15 for students, seniors and military.

Playwright Eugenia Woods utilized input from refugee, immigrant and indigenous communities to shape this theatrical work. The play weaves together stories of 5 central characters from Mexico, The Hopi Nation, China, Zimbabwe, and one composite character representing the voices of refugee women from Iraq, Egypt, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Blending actual interview material with dramatic writing, Woods' play examines what compels these characters to leave home, what they are forced to leave behind, and how they attempt to create a new home in a foreign land.

Director Marc David Pinate of Borderlands Theater and Choreographer Nanette Robinson of ZUZI! are partnering in creating the physical language of the play, set against Artist/Scenic Designer Wesley Creigh's sculptural installation.

In the past year, THE MIGRATION PROJECT has engaged community participation through public art activities at The Tucson Museum of Art, the Hopi Foundation's Owl and Panther Project and ZUZI! Dance Company. Woods has been gathering data for the project for over a year, interviewing migrants who have left their homes for safety, for survival, for love, for freedom, for peace, for a sustainable relationship of self to place.

Opening night is free thanks to a generous grant from the Tucson Pima Arts Council. Tickets will be offered on a first come-first serve basis with project participants receiving priority seating. Donations are welcome.

Ticket reservations may be made by email at themigrationprojecttucson@gmail.com or by calling 520 975 4021 .

Saturday, September 27th, 2014

May 16 – September 27, 2014 in the Street GalleryOpening Reception and Live Performance: May 16 from 7 to 9 PM

Salt Lake City, UT - The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to announce In Motion: Borders and Migrations, a group exhibition thataddresses the U.S.-Mexico border and its unique geographic, political, social, and aesthetic contexts.

The works in the show complicate definitions of this demarcation as a fixed and knowable boundary line between nations. In Motion: Borders and Migrationsoffers audiences an alternative to popular media perspectives on the border and to the cultural give-and-take that occurs there.

Though often framed as a site of tension, the international line between the United States and Mexico is a dynamic location that has generated a distinct artistic culture often overlooked in media coverage. The specific economic, political, and visual circumstances of the border have produced aesthetically compelling, socially engaged artistic practices on both sides of the line. Featuring photography, painting, video, sculpture, sound and performance pieces, In Motion: Borders and Migrations presents diverse perspectives on what it means to experience and move across the border, both physically and symbolically.

In addition to the exhibition, the opening night reception will feature a live performance piece by Caleb Duarte, created for In Motion: Borders and Migrations. The piece will be filmed and displayed through video for the remaining run of the exhibition.

In Motion: Borders and Migrations was formed in collaboration with University of Utah professor, Elena Shtromberg and students in the course “Visual Culture along the U.S./Mexico Border.”

Join a diverse group of artists, writers and scholars for a lively discussion of our world’s sonic environments, the practice of listening closely to the planet’s natural and urban sounds, and the implications of our acoustic surroundings.

This free-admission event will take place in Music Room 146 at the UA School of Music on Monday, February 3, 2014 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.

This project has been made possible by a grant from the College of Fine Arts Fund for Excellence and the Sound Investment Fund.

Panelists include:

Alison Hawthorne Deming – poet, essayist, director of UA’s Creative Writing Department, author of many publications including "The Edges of the Civilized World: A Journey in Nature and Culture."

Stephan Moore – composer, sound artist, vice president of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, curator of the upcoming sound art exhibition “In the Garden of Sonic Delights” at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts.

Glenn Weyant – musician, sound artist, creator of the Sonorous Desert City Project and The Anta Project, in which he used the U.S./Mexico border fence as a massive electro-acoustic instrument.

John Melillo – UA Department of English, poet, musician, and author of "Outside In: Noisescapes from Dada to Punk," will moderate the discussion.

Directly following the discussion Glenn Weyant will lead a soundwalk, an ambulatory exploration of the UA campus’s richly sonorous setting.

Note: Michael Dauphinais will also present an innovative recital that evening with composer Stephan Moore. "Piano, The Other Piano, and Neither Piano," for keyboard and electronics, will be held in Holslclaw Hall at 7:00 p.m.

The Tucson orchestra --- not be confused with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra --- will be led by guest conductor Glenn Weyant LIVE on December 11, 2013 at EXPLODED VIEW in a one-night-only special performance of Klangkunst Schmangkunst : Reconceptualizing Broadband Noise And Restricted Acoustic Horizons Vis-A-Vis Amorphous Sonorous Desert City Extended Soundscapes And Listener Reception Encounters.

Klangkunst Schmangkunst celebrates nearly six months of existential sound gathering begun on July 1, 2013 for the ground-breaking composition of Sonorous Desert City Project: Suite I-III (due in out early 2014) with live performance, video and an original sound collage followed by Q&A.

About The Sonorous Desert City Project: Suite I-III: www.sonorousdesertcity.com

The Sonorous Desert City Project: Suite I-III seeks to reacquaint Tucson (and newly acquaint the rest of the world) with our shared aural landscape through a series of listening performances and a limited edition recording.

In this age of rapid information distribution, virtual everything and earbuds, The Sonorous Desert City Project promotes taking time to simply unplug and listen to the world around us, to reconnect and explore our roles in this radiant soundscape, hearing the sacred in the mundane and the profound in the prosaic, all of which is not only healthy for our minds and spirits but also fosters a sense of place and connection.

The Sonorous Desert City Project is made possible through a generous grant by the Tucson Pima Arts Council.

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

Stories about the skeletons in the closet, family vacations in the station wagon, chores, allowance and beating up your brother. Being adopted or wishing someone else would adopt you—what are the smiles in those family portraits hiding? Holiday traditions, your years in psychotherapy, weddings, funerals, birthdays and why you love your mother.

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

Field recordings and performances from the Southern Arizona/Northern Sonora borderlands of the militarized infrastructure as addressed in The Anta Project and Droneland Security will be included as part of this riveting ongoing photography project by Alexandra Novosseloff and Frank Neisse.

The exhibition represents:

The Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea

The Green Line that divides the island of Cyprus

Peace Lines in Northern Ireland

Berm a wall of sand that crosses the Western Sahara from north to south

The Fence built between the United Sates and Mexico

Barbed wire around the Spanish enclaves in Morocco

The Control Line between Pakistan and India

The Security/Separation Wall between Israelis and Palestinians

This photography project has been shown in The Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva, The GoEun Museum of Photography in Korea along with various other galleries in Greece, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Haiti, Dubai, and Nairobi. The installation in The Founders’ Gallery will be the first time these works have been shown in North America.

Friday, March 1st, 2013

Museum of Contemporary Art

The Sherman-Weyant Anarchist Implosion - 6-8 p.m.

265 S Church Ave. Tucson, AZ 85701 USA (520) 624-5019

Price: Free For All

March 1, 2013

The Sherman-Weyant Anarchist Implosion

1 March 2013

6-8pm

FREE for all

The Sherman-Weyant Anarchist Implosion have created a site-specific ambient audio work that is inspired and provoked by Peter Young’s paintings while also explicitly devised to acoustically activate the MOCA Great Hall’s unique properties. Echoing and celebrating Young’s career of painterly process-based abstraction, The Sherman-Weyant Anarchist Implosion will present a multi-threaded performative soundscape that is both algorithmic and improvisational.

About the artists:

David Sherman is a filmmaker and media/sound artist, whose appropriation and collage based, works are concerned with activating/documenting alternative histories and states of consciousness. Sherman’s works have been exhibited extensively at film festivals, museums and alternative venues throughout the world including: The Whitney Biennial, The New York Film Festival, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and Musée National d’Art Modern, Paris. www.davidshermanfilms.com

Glenn Weyant is a founding member and innovator of the early 21st Century Border Wall Deconstructionist Movement. Using a cello bow and implements of mass percussion to “play” the Sonoran Desert’s border walls, militarized infrastructure and assorted ephemera, both natural and human, Weyant’s internationally recognized work has been featured in films, books, photographs and audio recordings. In 2012 Weyant’s performance of John Cage’s 4″33 upon the Nogales Wall was included in the New York Public Library/John Cage Trust retrospective: John Cage unbound A Living Archive. To learn more about Weyant’s work visit: sonicanta.com

Saturday, January 5th, 2013

BORDER SONGS NMD BENEFIT Southside Presbyterian Church

Border Songs - 7 p.m.

317 W. 23rd St. Tucson, AZ 85716 USA

Price: $5 or free with CD purchase

Cyril Barret, Chuck Cheesman, Robert Neustadt, Ted Warmbrand, Glenn Weyant, Adam Cooper-Teran, m. henry and others will perform selections from Border Songs, a compilation album to benefit No More Deaths, at 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 5. $5 donation or the purchase of a CD for $20. All proceeds go to No More Deaths.

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Border Songs CD Project Release Concert - tba

Chuck Cheesman and Bob Neustadt are putting together a compilation of musical and spoken word recordings dealing with the US/Mexico border catastrophe. The CD release will be held in conjunction with an art show at the Coconino Center for the Arts.

Follow the Border Songs CD Project on Facebook and Twitter. All funds from sale of the CD will benefit the humanitarian organizaion NO MORE DEATHS.

Friday, September 28th, 2012

The Albuquerque Cultural Conference is a project of West End Press. It was hatched in 2007 by West End Publisher John Crawford, and named to recall the Kansas City Cultural Conferences of the late 1970s.

To date, there have been four Albuquerque Cultural Conferences (2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011). We’ve evolved in form and content, and meet in two- or three-day sessions in September at the Harwood Art Center. We concentrate on maintaining high energy on low budgets, with a combination of panels, workshops and evening performances. We featured mixed presentations of readings, performance art, and music. We offer an extensive book exhibit with opportunities for publishers, authors, and the voracious readership that makes up our ranks.

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

May 24-28 : The International Communication Association Conference in Phoenix for a presentation on The Anta Project --- with a session devoted to building customized, self-attaching border wall amplification boxes --- $5 supply fee but you get to keep what you build.

The place to be : If you're in Tijuana (or the vicinity) on Friday The 13th, check out the photo show opening by Jill M. Holslin --- Mi Frontera : Rastos y testimonios en el muro. Border art (Jill), food (Machine Designer Deli) and sound (soniCanta)...

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

(NEITHER) HERE NOR THERE: Stories from Life on the Borderlands - 6 p.m.

1031 N. Olive Rd Tucson, AZ 85716 USA 621-7567

Price: Free

This storytelling is one of many events, symposia and exhibits featured in connection with The Border Project: Soundscapes, Landscapes and Lifescapes, which continues through Sunday, March 11, at the UA Museum of Art.

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

BICAS

Cycle-Centric Instrument Workshops - 1-4 pm

44 West 6th St Tucson, AZ

Price: $20

Since childhood I've been making music /sculpting sound / composing works with repurposed objects such as bike parts and bungee chords and lately I've thought it would be interesting to pass on the knowledge I'd gained in those areas.

So a few years back I proposed a series of bike-centric instrument workshops at BICAS in Tucson. Later this month the idea will become a reality.

The series will run every Saturday from April 30th through May 28th and conclude with a public performance. Everyone who attends will get to keep their instruments, mallets, wind instruments and other goodies. All for the low price of $20.

To register contact BICAS directly because classes are limited and filling up.

Hope to see you there.

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

Valley Of The Moon

Spring Circus! - 4 - 8 p.m.

2544 East Allen Road Tucson, AZ

Price: $6 adults / $4 children

Spring Circus is a FUNdraiser for Procession of Little Angels, the childrens version of the All Souls Parade put on by Many Mouths One Stomach. It's a great local cause and fun for the whole family with New-Tang Acrobats, Orbital Evolution, The Wonderfools, Gumbo Wobbly and Friends, Cub Club Samba, and recycled art and paper flower making. During the dinner hour we'll be breaking out The Kestrel 920 and opening it up for improvisation by anyone interested. Hope to see you there.

Sunday, March 27th, 2011

The Hut

BICAS/Bike-A-Stra Workshop Benefit - 5 pm until midnight

ON 4th Ave Tucson, AZ 85701

Price: $5

About the workshops:The BICAS Instrument Workshops will begin on Sunday’s from April 30th to May 28th with a concert that will be open to the public. The $20 fee covers all four workshops, materials, instruction, and a complimentary recording of the final performance.

The workshops look at the history of repurposed object instrumentation, design, fabrication, and performance application in a group setting. In addition to building cycle-centric instruments they can play and keep, students at the workshop will also receive materials and do-it-yourself (DIY) instructions for building simple amplifiers, microphones and pickups.

“Bikes and bike culture is about much more than just transportation. They are about creating community, developing self-reliance, healthy lifestyle choices, environmental stewardship, and having fun,” said BICAS Art Coordinator Casey Wollschlaeger. “BICAS has been building a reputation for creating cycle influenced art for some time. Now for the first time in Tucson, BICAS, is offering workshops which will allow the community to explore the musical properties of bicycles and other re-purposed objects and materials.”

“As children I think we all innately knew about the sound properties of our bikes. We attached playing cards to spokes or tapped out rhythms on the frame and handlebars,” said Glenn Weyant, a founding member of Bike-A-Stra and inventor of The Electric Ferris Box. “These workshops will reconnect participant with that sense of imagination and exploration while building functional instruments they can play in an orchestral setting mixing both composition and improvisation.”

Partake in an immersive sonic meditation on the ghettoization of noise/sound/music composed for modified shortwave radio and instruments of original design like the Kestrel 920 and the electric Ferris Box. Glenn Weyant is a Tucson-based sound sculptor, educator, baker, journalist and builder/designer of original instruments. As the founder of SonicAnta, a grass roots record label and performance organization, Weyant has dedicated his audio work to the exploration of sonic boundaries and the local sound of ecology.

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

A live telematic performance linking Tucson with Chicago, Mexico City and Buenos Aires. Performing in Tucson will be Steev Hise (laptop and keyboard) and Glenn Weyant (electric ferris box and prepared guitar).
Streamed live over the Web: http://128.196.31.10:8000/high.mp3
Or via airwaves: AM: 1570

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

The All Souls International Film Festival serves as a forum for people from all cultures to actively explore the phenomena of death through cinema. The ASIFF happens one month after the All Souls Procession, and will take place this year at the Loft Cinema on Wednesday and Thursday, December 10th and 11th, 2008.
Expect one-of-a-kind shorts, animations, and other experiments regarding themes of Ancestry, Global Rituals and Festivals relating to Death, Grief, Loss, and Rebirth. Also featuring special performances by David Wright (Not Breathing) and Glenn Weyant (SonicAnta).

Friday, February 8th, 2008

I'll be performing on Friday BUT check out the whole list of events.
Probably one of the more interesting things going on in Tucson that weekend.
Friday, February 8, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-12:40 p.m. Free Admission
Venue-AZ SENIOR ACADEMY -13701 E.Old Spanish Tr.
9:30-10 a.m.-Meet & Greet
10:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.-Performance: A Transharmonic Exploration In Multitonal Omnivibrationalism, Glenn Weyant
Tucson based sound sculptor Glenn Weyant will present and perform with The Kestrel 920, a sound transmorgifier of his own design. Calibrated to amplify and exploit the nano and overt vibrations created through percussive blows, bowing, electromagnetic fields and assorted manipulation, the heart of Kestrel 920 is a segment of found lumber that has been hollowed to create a resonation chamber for the mounting of a contact microphone. The lumber has been strategically mounted with found objects mostly including: a tuned dust pan, a deconstructed satellite dish mount, assorted screws, a bicycle hub, nails, bungee cords, wires and springs.
During a question and answer period Weyant will discuss his ideas about new instrument design, construction and performance techniques, development of communication with personalized sonic languages, non-linear group interaction and full-body listening.
11:00 a.m.- 11:45 a.m. Talk: Amplification and the Human Ear, Daniel R. Boone, Ph.D.
Daniel R. Boone, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of the University of Arizona, will talk about hearing amplification and continuous noise exposure appear to be taking a toll on our ability to listen. A growing portion of our listening audience have hearing impairment, and many of them with normal hearing have forgotten how to listen. We take a look at the normal ear and the physiology of how we hear, appreciating the effects on normal hearing from aging and disease.
We consider the differences in listening to coded and uncoded hearing in listening to both music and speech. We consider the impact of self-hearing on our ability to perform instrumentally, in our singing, and in our ability to speak.
12:00 p.m.- 12:40 p.m. Performance: Steven Romaniello will perform on the Theremin.
Originally, the theremin was intended to replace entire orchestras with its "music from the ether." While that never quite happened, it has been used in many recordings over the years. During the 60's and 70's, bands such as Lothar and the Hand People, the Bonzo Doo Dah Dog Band, and Led Zeppelin brought the theremin into the public eye for a short time. Then, the theremin slipped back into obscurity until the recent revival of the 1990s. Today, lots of bands use theremins, though few in a musical context.
12:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m EXTRA Special Events @ The Westward Look Resort
State of the Art surround sound recordings by Dr. Mark Waldrep of AIX Records, demonstrated on complete, highest quality, state of the art surround sound equipment for your home. The room will be set up with highest quality, full range speakers, in precise 5.1 surround array around audience seating to demonstrate maximal reproduction of surround field recording and reproduction for human perception.
Canyon Room: McIntosh Electronics, driving the outstanding McIntosh XRT1K tower array speakers.
Demonstrated courtesy of L&M Home Entertainment
Saturday, February 9, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5 p.m. Tickets $30
Venue- Berger Performing Arts Ctr. - 1200 W Speedway Blvd.
Event is part of Rhythms of LIFE series and seating is limited
3:00 p.m.-Talk/Demo Dr. Mark Waldrep: HD Surround Sound Delivery: Getting Inside A Music Performance
The arrival of new high definition, surround music delivery schemes on DVDs and through HD download services offers a new opportunity for music listeners to experience their favorite compositions...from the inside and up close. Imagine a chamber ensemble or soloist coming to your home to perform a private concert for you and group of your closest friends. That’s the experience that AIX Records delivers through their unique recording techniques and use of state-of-the-art technologies. This presentation will discuss and demonstrate some of AIX Records’ award-winning music recordings and the philosophy behind them. Dr. Waldrep, founder and chief engineer of AIX and iTrax.com, brings decades of experience making recordings to the exciting world of HD Surround Sound.
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.- Robert Picardo stars in A Beautiful Deception: From Impressionism to Surrealism; Plus a rare showing of of the surrealist short film ‘Entr’acte’ (1924) by director René Clair – the very first film with a dedicated original score composed by Satie- with a live piano performance.
Music for solo piano and piano four hands will be performed by Lyova Rosanoff and Sanda Schuldmann.
10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m EXTRA Special Events @ The Westward Look Resort
State of the Art surround sound recordings by Dr. Mark Waldrep of AIX Records, demonstrated on complete, highest quality, state of the art surround sound equipment for your home. The room will be set up with highest quality, full range speakers, in precise 5.1 surround array around audience seating to demonstrate maximal reproduction of surround field recording and reproduction for human perception.
Canyon Room: McIntosh Electronics, driving the outstanding McIntosh XRT1K tower array speakers.
Demonstrated courtesy of L&M Home Entertainment
Sunday, February 10, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Free Admission
Venue: AZ SENIOR ACADEMY -13701 E.Old Spanish Tr.
12:30 p.m.-1 p.m.-Meet & Greet
1 p.m--3:00 p.m. PERFORMANCE: PLUTO DÉJÀ VU, a new play by Harry Clark, staged reading
I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The work explores memory with seven members of a book club. Directed by Cynthia Meier, with well-known regional actors including Chuck Rankin, Lesley Abrams, Alida Gunn & Joe McGrath.
3:15 p.m--4:00 p.m- TALK: Memory: The Latest in Brain Science
10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m EXTRA Special Events @ The Westward Look Resort
State of the Art surround sound recordings by Dr. Mark Waldrep of AIX Records, demonstrated on complete, highest quality, state of the art surround sound equipment for your home. The room will be set up with highest quality, full range speakers, in precise 5.1 surround array around audience seating to demonstrate maximal reproduction of surround field recording and reproduction for human perception.
Canyon Room: McIntosh Electronics, driving the outstanding McIntosh XRT1K tower array speakers.
Demonstrated courtesy of L&M Home Entertainment

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

From September 30 through October 31: The Anta Project will serve as a sound installation to accompany an exhibit of photographs of daily life taken by the children of immigrant and rural farm workers curated by Jane Crowe.

Friday, August 31st, 2007

From July through August: The Anta Project will serve as a sound
installation to accompany an exhibit of photographs of daily life taken by
the children of immigrant and rural farm workers curated by Jane Crowe.

Friday, June 1st, 2007

With a methodology rooted in his experiences transforming the U.S./Mexico border into an electro-acoustic instrument, Tucson-based sound sculptor Glenn Weyant will use images, sounds and words to explore what happens when culturally symbolic or metaphorical objects are chosen as instruments and how this approach can engage the passive listener with an organic line of questioning, leading to a deeper awareness of issues beyond the sounds themselves.